“I think the key thing for most players, I’d say pretty much all players, is to be able to just think about what they have to do. Hear the play, go out there and think about what are the options on this play or what adjustments will I have to make on this play.

And then go out there and be aggressive and do it. And for a quarterback sometimes it’s an either/or play, a check-with-me play, a run this way or a run that way based on the defensive look. That kind of thing.

But my experience with players has been its hard when you just kind of give them the whole playbook or let a quarterback call plays or give a defensive signal caller four or five different options. …

Sometimes you either end up getting nothing done right or the communication is a struggle for them to get all 11 guys on the same page when you’re trying to get into the perfect defense or the perfect offensive play.

Do we talk about things during the week? Sure, I think you do that with any quarterback and Tom has great input because of his experience in the system and also his natural football instincts and understanding the game and what he can do and what some of our teammates can do. …

At the same time, I think Tom really prefers to just go out there and get the play and go out there and run it and get it executed well. And then he can just concentrate on that and not try to game plan and call plays and all that. So there’s a little bit of a balance in there.”